Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Sketch for Three Side Wings with Part of Proscenium Frame” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 15:09 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Sketch for Three Side Wings with Part of Proscenium Frame
Artist not stated in the record · early 18th century

Wall clock (cartel)
Etienne LeNoir · ca. 1735–40

Stage Design: Proscenium and Palace Staircase
Girolamo Fontana, Italian, 1668 - 1701 · 1690–1710

The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · ca. 1751–52

Proscenium and Curtain, Little Theater of the Orphans, Faenza
Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · 1869

The Three Ages of Humans
Dosso Dossi (Giovanni de Lutero) · ca. 1515

Matchsafe
Theodore B. Starr · 1905–15

The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1760s

Elevation of a Town Mansion
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1750-1800

A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635

Proscenium and Plan for a Stage
Unknown, Italian · 1725–50

A Woodland Road with Travelers
Jan Brueghel the Elder · 1607

Design for an Illusionistic Wall Decoration, with a King Accompanied by Soldiers
Gaetano Lazzara, Italian, d. ca. 1730 · 1703

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families
Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Console table and vase
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1785–1790

Tommaso di Folco Portinari (1428–1501); Maria Portinari (Maria Maddalena Baroncelli, born 1456)
Hans Memling · ca. 1470

Frame and chandelier; male portrait bust
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · ca. 1790

Armchair (Fauteuil à la reine) for Louise-Élisabeth of Parma
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot · ca. 1749

Three Friezes; A Base; An Ornament
Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · ca. 1800

Entombment of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1515

Designs for a Sofa, Armchair, Console Table, Console Looking Glass
Artist not stated in the record · 1815–30

Filippo Archinto (born about 1500, died 1558), Archbishop of Milan
Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) · mid-1550s

Design for Stuart Monument
Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–1809 · 1793
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 828 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 2965560 matched · 40 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-03 15:09 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.